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The Conservative Party initiative, which involves volunteers trying to improve the lives of the survivors of the country’s 1994 genocide, is close to his heart. A founding father of Umubano was the late Christopher Shale, who was Cameron’s friend and constituency chairman.

The PM had hoped to join the volunteers while he was in Africa last year, but had to curtail his trip to return to Westminster for the phone hacking debate. Still, in May, he attended a gathering at Lord’s to raise money to build a cricket stadium in Rwanda.

Andrew Mitchell, the International Development Secretary, is now in Rwanda, and, over the weekend, watched as the Umubano cricket team was defeated by a home side.

Retiring figure

Julia Somerville was not in any hurry over the weekend to correct an error in her Wikipedia entry. It still states, as I write this, that she is 64.

Whisper it ever so gently, but the BBC newsreader celebrated her 65th birthday on Saturday. “She kept it very quiet,” a friend of hers tells me. “There was no big party.”

She was not in any hurry to talk to me about it, either. Her desire to keep it low-key seems wise. As it is, for all the talk about the BBC’s concern about ageism, she is only allowed to present the news on 24 days a year.